Information & Communications Technology

Seasoned technologists, digital innovators, and other ICT experts, dedicated to advancing the field of information and communications technology

Doug Leal

Doug Leal

Enterprise Architect with 20+ years of experience executing key data-centric solutions, big data, cloud, analytics, and data engineering strategies and implementations in both enterprise and consulting capacities. Trusted advisor of enterprise data architecture for existing and new platforms. Machine Learning enthusiast.

Enterprise Architect with 20+ years of experience executing key data-centric solutions, big data, cloud, analytics, and data engineering strategies and implementations in both enterprise and consulting capacities. Trusted advisor of enterprise data a... Show more

Nick Doelman

Nick Doelman

Nick Doelman is an independent Power Platform specialist, trainer and coach. Nick delivers presentations, workshops and collaborates on Power Platform and Dynamics 365 projects worldwide. From 2021 to 2023, Nick worked as a Senior Content Developer at Microsoft where he worked on skilling content for Power Pages, Power Automate, and other parts of the Power Platform.
Nick has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT).
Nick is a cohost on the Power Platform BOOST podcast as well as one of the organizers of the Canadian Power Platform Summit. Nick is also a competitive Powerlifter and is a member of Team Canada competing at various international events.

Nick Doelman is an independent Power Platform specialist, trainer and coach. Nick delivers presentations, workshops and collaborates on Power Platform and Dynamics 365 projects worldwide. From 2021 to 2023, Nick worked as a Senior Content Developer a... Show more

Marco Ippolito

Marco Ippolito

Marco is a Senior Security Engineer at HeroDevs.
Active contributor, releaser, and member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, he is a renowned international speaker and a Microsoft MVP. Marco is actively involved in many projects within the Node.js ecosystem and also serves as a delegate in TC39.

Marco is a Senior Security Engineer at HeroDevs. Active contributor, releaser, and member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, he is a renowned international speaker and a Microsoft MVP. Marco is actively involved in many projects within the... Show more

Davide Mauri

Davide Mauri

Davide Mauri is Program Manager in the Azure SQL Database product group. He has been working in the IT field since 1997 and was awarded Data Platform MVP status for 12 consecutive years. He started his career as a full-stack and back-end developer, then focused on databases and data science for 15 years while still keeping alive his passion for development (mainly in C# and Python). He then moved to the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data space where ingesting, processing, and analyzing millions of data points in near real time was his everyday challenge. Building from that experience, he joined Microsoft to help companies worldwide to leverage stream processing at scale. He now works for Azure SQL Database as the developer's voice inside the product group, working to make sure that Azure SQL Database is, and will be, the best database option for developers.

Davide Mauri is Program Manager in the Azure SQL Database product group. He has been working in the IT field since 1997 and was awarded Data Platform MVP status for 12 consecutive years. He started his career as a full-stack and back-end developer, t... Show more

Wim Matthyssen

Wim Matthyssen

Wim is an Azure Technical Advisor and Trainer with over fifteen years of Microsoft technology expertise who specializes in helping companies transition to the Cloud.

Wim is also a Microsoft MVP in the Azure category, a founding board member of the MC2MC user group, and an active community contributor, sharing his experiences through blogs and speaking engagements.

Wim is an Azure Technical Advisor and Trainer with over fifteen years of Microsoft technology expertise who specializes in helping companies transition to the Cloud. Wim is also a Microsoft MVP in the Azure category, a founding board member of the... Show more

Jimmy Bogard

Jimmy Bogard

Jimmy is the creator and maintainer of the popular OSS libraries AutoMapper and MediatR, and the originator of Vertical Slice Architecture. Jimmy is an independent software consultant based in Austin, TX. Jimmy has received the "Microsoft Most Valuable Professional" (MVP) award every year since 2009.

Jimmy is the creator and maintainer of the popular OSS libraries AutoMapper and MediatR, and the originator of Vertical Slice Architecture. Jimmy is an independent software consultant based in Austin, TX. Jimmy has received the "Microsoft Most Valuab... Show more

Loek Duys

Loek Duys

I am CTO at Xebia Microsoft Services NL, Cloud architect, and Microsoft Azure MVP, helping companies modernize their IT all the way; Cloud strategy, SecDevOps practices, and Continuous Delivery. I spend most of my days helping teams by providing advice, hands-on assistance, solving problems and delivering technical training.
A couple of times per year, I like to speak at international conferences and to provide workshops.
By being a consultant, international speaker, trainer, active contributor to open-source projects, and forum participant, I love to share knowledge with the community.

Some of my recent public speaking & workshop engagements:
- NDC & SDD London
- Techorama & Experts Live Netherlands
- KCDC USA
- Update Conf & ESPC Czech Republic
- DevSum Sweden
- NDC Oslo
- VISUG XL Belgium
- MS Dev Summit & DevConf Poland
- Developer Week Germany
Want to know more? Send me a message https://mastodon.nl/@loekd

I am CTO at Xebia Microsoft Services NL, Cloud architect, and Microsoft Azure MVP, helping companies modernize their IT all the way; Cloud strategy, SecDevOps practices, and Continuous Delivery. I spend most of my days helping teams by providing advi... Show more

Jesús Espino

Jesús Espino

Jesús Espino is an Open-Source and software development enthusiast. He loves writing code and contributing to Open-Source projects. Jesús also had the privilege of being one of the starters or contributors in some interesting Open-Source projects like Taiga, Penpot, Mattermost, Focalboard, or testcontainers-go. He is a big fan of learning new things, especially programming languages. He loves Rust, Go, Python, Clojure, Git, Postgres, and Vim, and he loves to dive deep into technical details.

Currently, he is working mainly in Go and Typescript as a Principal Engineer at Mattermost, and he contributes to Open-Source projects whenever he can.

Jesús Espino is an Open-Source and software development enthusiast. He loves writing code and contributing to Open-Source projects. Jesús also had the privilege of being one of the starters or contributors in some interesting Open-Source projects lik... Show more

Anjuli Jhakry

Anjuli Jhakry

Meet Anjuli Jhakry: A Microsoft MVP and .NET developer at 4DotNet by day and a Microsoft Entra ID explorer by night. I'm navigating the vast ecosystem of Microsoft, always eager to learn. Beyond this, I am passionate about giving presentations and advocating for the incredible potential of tech to everyone.

Meet Anjuli Jhakry: A Microsoft MVP and .NET developer at 4DotNet by day and a Microsoft Entra ID explorer by night. I'm navigating the vast ecosystem of Microsoft, always eager to learn. Beyond this, I am passionate about giving presentations and ad... Show more

Janarthanan Selvaraj

Janarthanan Selvaraj

Janarthanan Selvaraj is working as Senior Specialist and Eviden Expert AI at Eviden. He is an alumni from University of Cambridge for FUEL Leadership flagship program and Professional graduate alumni from Anna University. He have been honored and recognized with the prestigious Microsoft MVP Award in the AI category, specifically recognized for my expertise in Azure OpenAI Service & Azure AI Services. He is recognized as 5 times Microsoft Certified Trainer and C# Corner MVP. He is Microsoft Azure Certified Data Scientist, AI Engineer, Data Engineer, Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty, Developer Associate, and Power BI Data Analyst Associate with a total of 16 Cloud Certifications from Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle and Aviatrix cloud. Being Resource Person conducted several meetups', Workshops, FDPs, STTP, Webinars, Knowledge sharing sessions at various levels in the organization and educational institutes. He is an active speaker, mentor, blogger, researcher and Open-source contributor in the field of AI & Cloud where his work has been mentioned across several developer tech communities, conferences and industry conclaves.

Janarthanan Selvaraj is working as Senior Specialist and Eviden Expert AI at Eviden. He is an alumni from University of Cambridge for FUEL Leadership flagship program and Professional graduate alumni from Anna University. He have been honored and rec... Show more

Luca Vitali

Luca Vitali

Luca Vitali born and live in Bologna, Italy.
He works in ICT since 1996, starting with AD and Exchange.
Since 2008 he follows OCS, Lync 2010, 2013, Skype for Business and Teams today. Since OCS, he starts to see in Microsoft UC the future of PBX Replacement.
More recently he started to use and write articles on OBS Studio, NDI Tools and how to integrate them with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Live Events

In 2016 Luca received the coveted Microsoft MVP award.

Luca is one of the founder, in 2016, of the first Italian User Group on Microsoft Unified Communication (UCUG.it) that evolved in the BeConnected day Group.
He is a regular speaker in the BeConnected Day and other Events of the Modern Work area

Specialities:
Microsoft 365 Modern Work
Microsoft Teams Enterprise Voice
Microsoft Information Protection
Power Automate & Azure Automation
Voice Gateway (SBC)
IP-DECT Solutions
Microsoft Teams Room
OBS Studio, NDI and streaming solutions

Luca Vitali born and live in Bologna, Italy. He works in ICT since 1996, starting with AD and Exchange. Since 2008 he follows OCS, Lync 2010, 2013, Skype for Business and Teams today. Since OCS, he starts to see in Microsoft UC the future of PBX Re... Show more

Raffaele Colavecchi

Raffaele Colavecchi

Raffaele graduated in Computer Science from the University of Turin in 2002. Since then, he has worked with Microsoft technologies in the field of productivity, becoming a Microsoft Certified Trainer in 2005. He specialized in the design and implementation of hybrid architectures and migrations to Microsoft 365 for email and Teams telephony. Since 2023, he has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for Exchange and Teams.

He is an active member of cloudcommunity.it and a promoter of DMARC, MTA-STS, SMTP DANE with DNSSEC protocols in Italy; contributing to the spread of knowledge and adoption of these important email security measures.

Raffaele graduated in Computer Science from the University of Turin in 2002. Since then, he has worked with Microsoft technologies in the field of productivity, becoming a Microsoft Certified Trainer in 2005. He specialized in the design and implemen... Show more

Rex de Koning

Rex de Koning

In IT for over 25 years now, started as developer, switched to system/network admin and now automation consultant and MCT. Primarily working on Azure and Powershell, to help our customers automate their processes and focus on their core-business

In IT for over 25 years now, started as developer, switched to system/network admin and now automation consultant and MCT. Primarily working on Azure and Powershell, to help our customers automate their processes and focus on their core-business Show more

Patty O'Callaghan

Patty O'Callaghan

Patty is a Venezuelan living in Scotland. She has +20 years of experience in the tech industry and a background education in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. She is a Technical Director at Charles River Laboratories.

Patty is a member of the Google Developer Advisory Board, an organiser at Google Developers Group Glasgow, serves as an Ambassador for Google's Women Techmakers, and is recognised as a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and a Google Cloud Champion Innovator.

Patty is a Venezuelan living in Scotland. She has +20 years of experience in the tech industry and a background education in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. She is a Technical Director at Charles River Laboratories. Patty is a membe... Show more

Eeva-Jonna Panula

Eeva-Jonna Panula

Eeva-Jonna, or Eevis, is an accessibility specialist and senior Android developer. She is also Android GDE and Women Techmakers Ambassador. Her passion is to share knowledge, and she speaks and writes a blog. When she is not doing that, she explores the beautiful Finnish nature either by foot or kayak.

Eeva-Jonna, or Eevis, is an accessibility specialist and senior Android developer. She is also Android GDE and Women Techmakers Ambassador. Her passion is to share knowledge, and she speaks and writes a blog. When she is not doing that, she explores ... Show more

Kai Stenberg

Kai Stenberg

Since February 2022, I have been an Microsoft MVP, M365 Apps & Services | TEAMS.
Voice has been focus the last 20 years within Contact Centers and for the last 13 years I have been working with Enterprise Voice solutions .
In February 2024 I started to work for Capgemini Norway as Managing Consultant.
Since 2017 I have been working with Microsoft Teams and Voice solutions where using Direct Routing produced from Azure.
I also do integrations from Teams Voice to Dynamics365, both Dyn365 Sales and the Microsoft Digital Contact Center Platform.
If you want to know about headset, the good one or Teams phones. I have done lot's on testing around this and have some great experience in the field.
I also have the Norwegian podcast #TeamsCastAway and also run two blogs.

Since February 2022, I have been an Microsoft MVP, M365 Apps & Services | TEAMS. Voice has been focus the last 20 years within Contact Centers and for the last 13 years I have been working with Enterprise Voice solutions . In February 2024 I start... Show more

Richard Fichtner

Richard Fichtner

Richard Fichtner is Principal Software Architect at XDEV Software GmbH and has worked in the software industry for more than 20 years, often at the interface between business and technology. He is involved in the open-source community to spread knowledge about Java technologies. He speaks at conferences and contributes to various open-source projects such as https://www.rapidclipse.com/. Richard is a leader of the Java User Group Oberpfalz, Co-organizer of JCON conferences https://jcon.one/, recognized as Java Champion, Oracle ACE Pro, IBM Champion and holds a Master of Science degree in applied computer science. He is passionate about enabling developer productivity and supports teams in the use of cloud solutions. His interests are Java, clean code, cloud, new technologies and everything pragmatic.

Richard Fichtner is Principal Software Architect at XDEV Software GmbH and has worked in the software industry for more than 20 years, often at the interface between business and technology. He is involved in the open-source community to spread knowl... Show more

Bazlur Rahman

Bazlur Rahman

A N M Bazlur Rahman is a Software Engineer with over a decade of specialized experience in Java and related technologies. His expertise has been formally recognized through the prestigious title of Java Champion. Beyond his professional commitments, Mr. Rahman is deeply involved in community outreach and education. He is the founder and current moderator of the Java User Group in Bangladesh, where he has organized educational meetups and conferences since 2013.

In the past two years, Mr. Rahman has been an active speaker at various international conferences and Java user groups. His talks have often focused on specialized topics such as concurrency and virtual threads. In addition to his community work, Mr. Rahman also serves as an editor for Java Queue at InfoQ and Foojay.io, both of which are leading platforms for technology content. Notably, he has authored five books on the Java programming language in Bengali, three of which have become best sellers in Bangladesh.

He is currently writing a new book with O'Reilly titled "Modern Concurrency in Java".
https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/modern-concurrency-in/9781098165406/

A N M Bazlur Rahman is a Software Engineer with over a decade of specialized experience in Java and related technologies. His expertise has been formally recognized through the prestigious title of Java Champion. Beyond his professional commitments, ... Show more

Mey Beisaron

Mey Beisaron

Mey is a Senior Platform Engineer and a public speaker who brings Star Wars geekery to everything she does.
As a Backend Developer, Mey has developed in multiple programming languages, including Nodejs, Python, Groovy, and her favorite, Clojure.
Today Mey is a Senior Platform Engineer at Forter, leading the complex migration of 400+ services to Kubernetes.
When she is not spending her weekends developing games she’s playing Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo Switch.
May the force be with you.

Mey is a Senior Platform Engineer and a public speaker who brings Star Wars geekery to everything she does. As a Backend Developer, Mey has developed in multiple programming languages, including Nodejs, Python, Groovy, and her favorite, Clojure. T... Show more

Manpreet Singh

Manpreet Singh

As a Senior Architect at Cognizant specializing in Microsoft Technologies, I am deeply passionate about leveraging innovation to drive meaningful change and empower organizations worldwide. I am recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in M365 and a revered MVP of the C# Corner forum. My commitment to excellence has been underscored by my contributions to the tech community, reflected in the countless articles and blogs I have authored. With a staggering read count exceeding 10+ million readers, my insights have resonated far and wide, shaping the discourse on cutting-edge technologies. Embracing a spirit of collaboration and knowledge sharing, I actively host a myriad of community events, boot camps, hackathons, and fundraisers each year. These endeavors serve as catalysts for fostering innovation, nurturing talent, and driving positive impact within the tech ecosystem and our community. Amidst the fast-paced world of technology, I am easily recognizable by my warm smile, a testament to my unwavering enthusiasm and genuine passion for what I do.

Hit me up for a connection.

As a Senior Architect at Cognizant specializing in Microsoft Technologies, I am deeply passionate about leveraging innovation to drive meaningful change and empower organizations worldwide. I am recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (M... Show more

Onyinye Madubuko

Onyinye Madubuko

Onyinye is an IT professional with substantial work experience in the Information Technology industry. Her expertise lies in digitally transforming organizations via modernized communications, advising intelligent strategies to adopt hybrid workplaces, and promoting creative solutions to collaborate effectively. She has successfully led multiple projects across the Modern Workplace technology across various sectors.
She is passionate about innovations in Information Technology, technical research, and investigative studies which has led to her collaboration in publishing journal and conference papers on IEEE.

Onyinye is an IT professional with substantial work experience in the Information Technology industry. Her expertise lies in digitally transforming organizations via modernized communications, advising intelligent strategies to adopt hybrid workplace... Show more

Konstantinos Passadis

Konstantinos Passadis

I have been an IT professional since 1997-98, starting my career as an IT Technician. My fascination with IT began at a young age, and I immersed myself in it from the start. My interests lay in Systems, Networking, and Voice, giving me a comprehensive view of IT technologies. Currently, I am focused on Cloud services, primarily Microsoft Azure and M365, along with AWS, Oracle OCI, and GCP. As a Solutions Architect for Enterprise Cloud Technologies, I hold multiple certifications from various vendors, but I am committed to continuous learning and constantly reassessing my expertise and skills.

I have been an IT professional since 1997-98, starting my career as an IT Technician. My fascination with IT began at a young age, and I immersed myself in it from the start. My interests lay in Systems, Networking, and Voice, giving me a comprehensi... Show more

Majid Hajian

Majid Hajian

Majid Hajian is an accomplished software architect and developer renowned for his expertise in designing intricate web and mobile applications. He is recognized as a Google Developer Expert, has received accolades as an author, and is a respected instructor.

Majid has authored several engineering books, including the top-seller FlutterEngineering.io book series.

As a prominent community leader, Majid organizes events worldwide, including the esteemed FlutterVikings conference, to empower fellow developers and propel the software development industry forward.

Majid Hajian is an accomplished software architect and developer renowned for his expertise in designing intricate web and mobile applications. He is recognized as a Google Developer Expert, has received accolades as an author, and is a respected ins... Show more

Barkha Herman

Barkha Herman

Barkha Herman is a technologist, experienced developer advocate, and the founder of WiTVoices and South Florida Women in Tech. With a deep understanding of technology and a love for fostering inclusive and diverse tech communities, Barkha is dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations to thrive in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Currently, Barkha is thriving as a Developer Advocate at StarTree.ai, where she collaborate with developers, engineers, and product teams to create innovative solutions that streamline development processes and enhance user experiences.

In addition to her work at StarTree.ai, she takes great pride in founding and leading WiTVoices and South Florida Women in Tech. These organizations are committed to empowering women in technology and creating a supportive environment for their professional growth. Through mentorship programs, networking events, and educational initiatives, they strive to break barriers and foster inclusivity in the tech industry.

Barkha Herman is a technologist, experienced developer advocate, and the founder of WiTVoices and South Florida Women in Tech. With a deep understanding of technology and a love for fostering inclusive and diverse tech communities, Barkha is dedicate... Show more

Julia Undeutsch

Julia Undeutsch

I am Dev & UX Accessibility Specialist at Atos.
After graduating University in Musicology and Japanese Studies in summer 2020, I started learning front-end development and specialized in the topic of web accessibility early on. Since then, I take every opportunity to spread awareness on the topic by regularly creating content in form of writing blog articles and such.
I have been certified by IAAP as a Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) in 2022 and got accepted in the Google Developer Expert Program in 2023.

I am Dev & UX Accessibility Specialist at Atos. After graduating University in Musicology and Japanese Studies in summer 2020, I started learning front-end development and specialized in the topic of web accessibility early on. Since then, I take ev... Show more

Annie Talvasto

Annie Talvasto

Annie Talvasto is an award-winning international technology speaker and leader. She has spoken at over 60 technology conferences worldwide, including KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and Microsoft Build & Ignite. She has been recognized with the CNCF Ambassador and Azure & AI MVP awards. Annie is the creator of TechCraft Show, where she and her guests talk tech while playing MineCraft (potentially) badly. She has co-organized the Kubernetes & CNCF Finland meetup since 2017. In the past, she has also served as a track chair for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and has been hosting Cloud Native Live, a weekly livestream by CNCF, since 2021.

Annie Talvasto is an award-winning international technology speaker and leader. She has spoken at over 60 technology conferences worldwide, including KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and Microsoft Build & Ignite. She has been recognized with the CNCF Ambassa... Show more

Steve Campbell

Steve Campbell

I’m Steve Campbell.
For my job, I run Sunny BI, a Microsoft data training and consulting firm focused on analytics and reporting.

Outside of this, I love to blog on PowerBI.tips, present at conferences and webinars, and co-run the Brew City Power Platform user group. It’s a fantastic community and I recommend being a part of it!

I’m Steve Campbell. For my job, I run Sunny BI, a Microsoft data training and consulting firm focused on analytics and reporting. Outside of this, I love to blog on PowerBI.tips, present at conferences and webinars, and co-run the Brew City Power... Show more

Daniel Laskewitz

Daniel Laskewitz

Power Apps. Power Automate. Microsoft 365. Azure. Daniel works with a lot of different technologies. He loves low-code AND code. Daniel is a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, where he continues to enthuse people about the possibilities of the Power Platform. Daniel loves to talk to you about what the Power Platform can do for you, whether you're a developer, an IT Pro, an architect, or an administrator.

Power Apps. Power Automate. Microsoft 365. Azure. Daniel works with a lot of different technologies. He loves low-code AND code. Daniel is a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, where he continues to enthuse people about the possibilities of the Power Platfo... Show more

Kay Sauter

Kay Sauter

Kay Sauter has been working with SQL Server since 2013. His expertise covers SQL Server, Azure, Data Visualization, and Power BI. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP.
Kay blogs on kayondata.com and is actively involved in various community projects like Data TGIF, databash.live, data-conference.ch, and Data Platform Data Platform DEI Virtual Group.

He is based in Zurich, Switzerland and in his free time, together with his wife, he loves to travel to discover new cultures and perspectives.

Kay Sauter has been working with SQL Server since 2013. His expertise covers SQL Server, Azure, Data Visualization, and Power BI. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Kay blogs on kayondata.com and is actively involved in various community projects ... Show more

Andrej Pashchenko

Andrej Pashchenko

Andrej Pashchenko started his IT career in the early 1990s and has been working with Oracle Database since 1999 - the last 15 years as a consultant. He supports customer projects with a focus on data warehousing, data modeling, ETL and SQL performance. Andrej is sharing his knowledge and experience from customer projects on his blog, talking on various conferences and as a class instructor of Oracle New Features course.

Andrej Pashchenko started his IT career in the early 1990s and has been working with Oracle Database since 1999 - the last 15 years as a consultant. He supports customer projects with a focus on data warehousing, data modeling, ETL and SQL performanc... Show more

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